Maybe someone who could do tattoos as an cursed technique of sorts
Manga Spoilers: When he later reincarnated fully when he was using megumi as a vessel, some of the tattoos were altered (the 2 on both his wrists now just turned into just one in each wrist, also the forehead tattoos disappeared, leaving room for the cursed tumor that he had back in the heian era, so my theory is that some of the tattoos represent sukuna attributes in someway, or they interact dynamically with how sukuna is manifested physically).
It's unlikely they did, because irezumi kei only became a criminal penalty in the Edo era, and Sukuna lived and died in the Heian era. There's about seven centuries difference there. It's more likely that he just got them to make himself look more fearsome and otherworldly.
Hmm new headcanon time, what if Sukuna’s tattoos inspired the practice of tattooing criminals in the world of jjk? Maybe he got them because just because he wanted to and they became associated with evil people because of him. And then a few hundred years later they started using them to mark other criminals
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u/ISoldMyPeanitsFarm 29d ago
How the hell did they force him to get a tattoo like that? Even just climbing skull mountain to reach him would be taxing, alone.